Portland, OR, USA
Object seen in sky traveling from southwest to northeast. Silver/white in color with no visible wings and approximately 1000-1500 feet
Report quality: Moderate65/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-06-27
- Where
- Portland, OR, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 min 30 seconds
- Geo
- 45.523, -122.676 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-portland-or-2004-ee1b65
Part of a wave
The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era
U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting
The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Portland, OR reports filed in June 2004.
In context
- Portland, OR shows up 557 times across the archive.
- 93 reports came from Oregon in 2004.
- In the 2000s, 5.9% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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